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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 4) collects 1947 to 1949 correspondence on flying discs. It includes Portland police officers' accounts of a silvery object over the city on September 11, 1947, an Alaska pilot's July 1947 sighting near Bethel, citizen letters answered by J. Edgar Hoover, and a 1948 Air Defense Command directive on disc investigations. The FBI replied that it was conducting no flying disc investigations. Later items concern William Albert Rhodes's disc photographs and a Los Angeles letter judged a probable prank.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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,,. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION f'ormNo.1 THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT FILE NO. 1. U•.'i'ON $ REPORT MADE AT DATE WHEN MAD£ PERIOD FOR REPORT MADE BY W HICH MADIE l, J. ~TUELES TITI..S CHARACTER OF CASE .iLYii'.G !DISCS; LONlrrE EU:ARD NOliCK, com,plai nant; Houston, Texas, December 27, 19L8 SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: Object described by complainant o.s possiblo flying disc detel'Jlmed to be a n:.o<iel. tow target or kite lihich had been abandoned after unsuccessful. tests. .Portions o.f target positivel y identified by HENRY T. RICE, L•.•• roanu:.racturer. and erstwhile finru1.cie.l backer as bi..ing -part or the ruodel tareet or ldte. RUC r~mm:: Teletype from Uouston to ~iroctor dated l r/20/48. TeletYPQ from :Los Angeles to Director dat~d 12/28/48. Teletype from Los Angeles to Director dated 12/29/48. DETAitss This inveatigation is predicated upon the receipt o£ referenced lielctype from the Houston Office advisine that LO:rtNm EJJ ARD NOACK had located an object in the desert near ~elendale, California, resmcbling a flying disc . This object, described as a flying disc.:, had been located by t10ACK, R. c. ffiRSOU a.,d la°• and l!rs. NATHAN S'&!I'1'li of South Pasadena., California., approxi. ma.tel.y one hunared and fifty :miles northeast of Pasadena or about twenty miles ~om tone Pine, California. Special Agent JW, ARD OLSElf detet'1llined that R. C. PERSOU, Vasco ,anufacturing Company, nas traveling in Arizona and not available £or interview. APPROVED ANO SPCCIAL AG£NT FO!tWAROEO: 00 NOT WRITE IN THE9E SPACES IH CHARM COPIES OF THIS REPORT lJ.1Nau 2 - 11ouston l - IFO #2, Fort MacArthur 2 - Los Angeles /i
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